What's your H3 complaint?

[Kracker]

My wife loves the turn signal. Complaints...light bar vibration, rear visibility, and the #1 complaint...It is my wifes daily driver, not mine.

[trebor]

Most of these complaints seem to be related to options that people feel should have been standard equipment, or in the least options they could have chose to add if they wanted. My wife and I are car people, we have 6 vehicles between the two of us. The day she decided she wanted the H3 we drove 10-12 suvs from large to small, none came with the option of a rear view camera only 2 or 3 of the top end came with the option of a nav system, all had the clock on the radio, all had interior design issues that we did not like (as does the Hummer), but we chose this vehicle because of the capabilities and the apperance. Granted we would like to have some of the things you all mention changed but I don't see how any of you can complain about design issues, when you are the one who bought it. This thread is titled complaints not things you would change if you could.

That being said I do have a complaint.
After spending about 20mins in the mud the other day and using a hose to remove most of it and then taking it to a manuel wash and then an auto wash all the same day, mud had found its way into the door handles. This made them stick open as if the door latch was jammed. Not sure if this is a design issue (possibly door handles need a rubber seal or something) or not but if you advertise a vehicle can do something without damaging it or if this is a maintance item it should be listed somewhere in the manuel. I finally ran water in the door handle from the out side with the handle pulled, hoping not to damage the window motor or door lock actuator, and this solved the problem.

On the seat switches, I have an Expidition and the switches are in the same location and due to the arm rest on its door are actually harder to get at than the H3, I usually hit my finger on the door pocket on the Expedition.

[HIHUMMER]

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check your PM.

[Bling]

Having sex in the back seat is no different than my BMW M3... Although it feels more covert if someone happens to walk by.

[f5fstop]

Only complaint I have is the placement of the brake pedal to the accelerator pedal...too close.

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I not only allow smoking in mine, I encourage it. The cupholders are fantastic ashtrays, and when they start to fill up, the console will hold at least one thousand cigarette butts, and if that fills, there is always the glove box, but we have to be careful not to spill the beer. We even have contests to see who can burn the biggest holes in the leather seat. So far Bubba has won that contest with his 1" diameter Cuban Cigar, he smuggled in during his last trip to the Havana Red Light district.
However, Betty Lou did some creative burning and was able to customize by burning "HUMMER" into the passenger headrest; and this was when I was off-roading at 75 mph. Amazing her expertise in doing something so creative during such hard condition like being pounded up and down in the seat. Like it so much, I might have her do the driver's headrest too.
Also found out that if you keep windows closed, and enough people are smoking, and then you open the sunroof, everyone behind you is fogged for about three miles. Great feature when being chased by the revenuers.

Gotta go, time to use the wet/dry vac to vacuum out the console and all the cupholders, they runneth over with butts. Also have to wash out the rear seat, Betty Lou was bouncing up and down on Bubba's lap last night, not sure what they were doing, but it sure made a mess.

[JV1]

I'm puzzled why anyone would complain about poor visibility on an H3?

The small windows and the entire design makes the Hummer exactly what it is. A real cool looking vehicle that feels so different from the inside when you ride in one.

If they made the windows bigger, narrowed down the pillars, threw the spare tire underneath the body, well... then you would have a Ford Explorer or some other plain old SUV. Not a Hummer.

I am more than willing to make the visibilty trade-off for the Hummer look.

[Aubs]

Hey, nothing's perfect right? (Ok, don't answer that one.) So, with that in mind, what annoys, bugs, or just irritates you the most about the H3?

Having test driven the car, my biggest complaint is about the turn signal sound. It drives me nuts!! There must be some way to hack into that system and change the sound. I can think of some very creative sounds to use, depending on the systems capabilities . Maybe a pig squeal would be appropriate for some of you....

Anyway, we take delivery tomorrow, and we're headed on a road trip, so I'll be sure to post pics, MPG, and other complaints if they come up.

[Kid Shyleen]

I took mine up and down some pretty steep grades this last weekend. In 4LO and 1 (D, 3, 2, 1) it was too slow going down the hill. It just crawled. I actullay shifted into 2 because it was just too slow down the hill. Evldave, I didn't have any issues with this. Just use the gears and it will do whatever you want it to.

[HIHUMMER]

HA! Everytime I turn on the turn signal, the Snoop Dogg song "Drop it Like It's Hot" run through my head...think about it.

The horn is kind of wimpy too...Didn't we have a thread about things we would change? I'll see if I can find it.

[GotSandH3]

Thats for the info. I never knew the outlets turned off. Now I wont have to keep turning off my scanner.

[Edspad]

No Hard Points to Mount External ARMAMENT, windows are very narrow dosent acomadate long magazine weapons.sun roof to far forward no place to mount S.A.W or 50BMG. Wife slaps me when i mention these design issues.

[HummerNewbie]

Well, I didn't think I had a complaint about the H3 but realize I had a HUGE one.

I don't have mine yet!

That is all

[Ipedog]

F5 - Is GM looking at these responses? What are the chances of most of these complaints being corrected in the coming model year? Any chance of a 2006.5 model with these corrections in it?

Sorry to throw all these questions at you, but you seem to have a unique position of seeing things as they happen and possibly influencing things (maybe? ).

[GopherH3]

Just wish the rear seats would fold down flush. Other than that it's been 3000 miles of pure bliss!